Taly and Russ Johnson are visual artists. Their work is a mixture of
video, photography, collage and book art. Taly is a Film and TV
graduate of New York University, was born in Israel and has directed
and produced several short narrative films. Russ is a Detroit native
and a Cooper Union graduate. During his college years he worked as an
assistant to video artist Ira Schneider, painters Richard Hambleton
and Yvonne Jacquette, and photographer Rudy Burckhardt. Later he
worked with the non-profit video art organization Raindance
Foundation, curated the TV show "Night Light TV" and has been showing
media art since 1984.Taly and Russ met in New York in 1988 and worked
together producing multi-media music shows with the performance group
The Leisure Class. As a team, they continue to produce collage, video
art, photography and artist books. They married in May 1992.Their
videos have been shown in festivals and galleries in New York; Linz,
Austria; Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; Tel Aviv, Israel, as well as McMurdo
Station in Antarctica"We strive to capture, share and expose the
unseen and overlooked, to find joy in the banal. With video we can
discover a point in the pointlessness of everyday life." Taly has
said.
video, photography, collage and book art. Taly is a Film and TV
graduate of New York University, was born in Israel and has directed
and produced several short narrative films. Russ is a Detroit native
and a Cooper Union graduate. During his college years he worked as an
assistant to video artist Ira Schneider, painters Richard Hambleton
and Yvonne Jacquette, and photographer Rudy Burckhardt. Later he
worked with the non-profit video art organization Raindance
Foundation, curated the TV show "Night Light TV" and has been showing
media art since 1984.Taly and Russ met in New York in 1988 and worked
together producing multi-media music shows with the performance group
The Leisure Class. As a team, they continue to produce collage, video
art, photography and artist books. They married in May 1992.Their
videos have been shown in festivals and galleries in New York; Linz,
Austria; Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; Tel Aviv, Israel, as well as McMurdo
Station in Antarctica"We strive to capture, share and expose the
unseen and overlooked, to find joy in the banal. With video we can
discover a point in the pointlessness of everyday life." Taly has
said.
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